20/03/2017 South Today

Hello I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today.

The dashcam footage shows a lorry driver using a mobile phone

as he hits a stationary car killing a young woman.

Who is to blame for the claims of crime figures on this leaflet?

Why parents of children with mental health problems often

My job as a parent is to make sure my child is happy and safe

and all that but I'm seeing it as I've failed.

The game that's improving communication for those

Tonight, yet another case of death on the roads because someone

was using their mobile phone behind the wheel.

Once more it involves a lorry driver on the A34.

Dariusz Tokarczyk from Yorkshire has been sentenced to four and a half

years in prison for causing death by dangerous driving.

He failed to see the hazard lights of a car broken

down near the junction with the M4 motorway.

Jeremy Stern was in Reading Crown Court today.

This footage was taken from the lorry driven by Dariusz Tokarczyk on

the a 34 near Chieveley in March last year. I had deserved Vauxhall

Corsa driven by Jody Moss, a 21-year-old from Swindon. She had

put the hazard lights on because of engine problems. The lorry did not

slow down as it neared the car. Reading Crown Court heard Dariusz

Tokarczyk from Yorkshire was using a hand-held device, probably a mobile

phone, to change his music in the vital seconds before impact.

Speaking through a Polish interpreter, he admitted causing

death by dangerous driving. Judy Moss's family said she died after

some of the happiest months of her life. They condemned the lorry

driver. She was a happy student who loved nature, she was caring about

others. She was taking far too early by a selfish ten second act. The

driver had plenty of time to act. The devastation caused continues to

be miserable. We will never forget the pleasure she gave us.

Sentencing Dariusz Tokarczyk, the judge said he had taken a cavalier

attitude to using a mobile phone while driving. She said, you did not

react to the stationary vehicle until it was too late. She also

described him as irresponsible, reckless and thoughtless. He was

sentenced to four and a half years in prison and he was bound for

driving 451 months. Surrey County Council has accused

an energy company of doing additional drilling at an oil well

in the green belt without seeking Angus Energy has an existing

production site at It also has a stake

in an application for test drilling The company insists it has

all the permissions needed and planning consent

is not required. Lewis Coombes is at the Brockham

Field site near Dorking For 30 years oil has been

drilled here, Sally, but today it's the centre

of an ongoing debate between the owners, Angus Energy,

and Surrey County Council. It's around whether the

company did or did not require planning permission to drill

what's known as a sidetrack It's an off-shoot if you like of

the original borehole, something the company are keen

to explore as it's thought there could be far greater

quantities of oil 700 Surrey County Council wrote

to the company saying it needed planning permission and says it's

extremely disappointed But Angus Energy says

the council only controls activities above ground

and that they've followed all the permissions and guidelines

required by the three other regulators - the Environment Agency,

the Oil and Gas authority It is a complicated industry. You

need oversight for different areas of it. Of course, those other bodies

need to be approached and you need permits from them. Unless Saudi

county council don't understand their own permits, it would seem odd

they add in the run. -- Surrey County Council.

This is a site that's been at the centre of protests

Yes, this is different to the anti-fracking protests that

But last year, two protest camps were set up here at Brockham

Angus Energy has an interest in that site also an application for test

I think we need to work through the economic indications and the social

implications. We need to be careful about what ever is done to develop

the site. This village has changed over the

years with the traffic and everything and now we've got the

tankers coming in. It is a very narrow road and it causes a lot of

problems for people. It's my understanding

that ongoing talks will continue between Angus Energy

and Surrey County Council about whether to apply for

retrospective planning permission. They will be a number of people who

will be looking forward to the outcome. We will report on that.

The judge has begun summing up in the case of Aaron Brown,

who's accused of the manslaughter of Ryan McKinlay from

Earlier, Winchester Crown Court was told that a high speed powerboat

accident that killed Mr McKinlay was caused by an error of judgement.

Mr Brown's defence barrister told the jury that he was

This is the turbojet rib owned by Aaron Brown.

Here, driven by the skipper he had hired to take his

party of friends out on his larger luxury motor cruiser.

A little after these pictures were taken Mr Brown

took the helm with devastating consequences.

His friend, Ryan McKinlay, a passenger in the rib

was killed when he collided with the larger boat.

Prosecutors say his death was foreseeable and avoidable.

Mr Brown, they say, was driving too fast and too close to the other boat

in an obviously dangerous and reckless manoeuvre.

Giving evidence, Mr Brown, seen here on the left,

He had been trying to spray guests on his cruiser.

He said at the time he didn't think he was going too fast

I was intending to turn away, I turned right and the boat

It happened so quickly, he told the jury tearfully.

Mr Brown's defence barrister said his client is

a naturally cautious, careful and considered man.

He said this was a tragic accident, the result of a serious error

of judgment and a mistake, he said, that did not

But the prosecution told the jury this was an inevitable disaster.

Mr McKinlay died as a result of reckless driving by a man

The jury will consider its verdict here tomorrow.

Wiltshire police has had to apologise for releasing figures

suggesting that crimes against women in the county had gone up by

The actual increase is just over 100% but the mistake only came

to light after the original figures were used by the Liberal Democrats

in an election newsletter and the party was accused

of scaremongering by the Conservative Police and Crime

Our Political Editor Peter Henley is here.

In this era of Fake News we are all scrutinising things

like election leaflets very carefully.

This one from the Lib Dems claims Crime Shock.

A shocking 500% rise in serious crimes against women in five years.

Now the Crime Commissioner called foul over it.

Though he was at pains to say in a statement,

"Whilst holding this office I try to serve

Which would be all very well, except the 500% figure

They gave it to a local Herald. The Superintendent was quoted saying the

bride was largely down to women feeling more confident in coming

forward. It is that the Lib Dems picked it up from.

They can't both be right. The police got it wrong. The police quoted

figures for 2011. The police put out a correction, they would like to

apologise. The Police and Crime Commissioner

said the confidence of victims to come forward is key, and alarmist

article on political newspapers will not help. The Lib Dems say this is

outrageous. Somebody should have looked

at it and said either good heavens that's wrong or good

heavens we need some help. It suggests the commissioner isn't

familiar with the figures for crime Now we asked Angus McPherson,

Wiltshire's Police and Crime Commissioner to respond,

but he didn't want to instead issuing a third statement

in which he conceded the police mistake was "regrettable"

but standing by his accusation that the leaflet was alarmist

because unlike the newspaper articles there was "not a word

of reassurance or mitigation." However we do now know

is a substantial rise in reported Sheltering the homeless

on the island. The bus idea that's now

being rolled out elsewhere. Many parents of children

with mental health problems are not asking for help,

because they feel blamed Researchers at Reading University,

who've highlighted the seriousness of the issue, say more needs to be

done to remove the stigma parents feel, so more youngsters

get the help they need. Nikki Mitchell has been finding out

more about the difficulties some When I tried to get

to sleep, I always thought somebody was going to come

in and murder me. Luke's years of extreme

anxiety exhausted and upset his family just as

much as it did him. When I was worried I just thought

of bad stuff and I couldn't I was fine at school but just

when I had to go to sleep, I just felt like something

was going to happen That could go on in till two

or three o'clock in the morning and it just made this

spiral of awful effects with his tiredness the next day,

our own tiredness the next day. It was a volcano just

bubbling the whole time. Many parents in her

situation feel a sense of hopelessness and guilt but

researchers at Reading University have found it is a fear

of being blamed which stops There is quite a lot

of work surrounding stigma associated with mental health

but what this work does is highlight the stigma specifically

for parents and the blame the parents can feel for having a child

with mental health difficulties. Both blame that they put on

themselves but also they are seeing other people blaming them

for their child's problems. I blamed myself because

I had a child that, My job as a parent is

to make sure my child For some parents that

can put them off seeking help and make it harder

for them to seek help and perhaps wait until problems have got worse

and really at crisis point I was so lucky, I had

the family support, I had my family telling me, you are not a bad

parent, you are great. But if you haven't got someone

there to tell you then you need Then you are going to be in a better

place and you are going to be in a better place

to help your child With help from children

and adolescent and mental health services, Luke has now overcome

much in his anxiety. But frustratingly the waiting

list is an extremely long one, two to three

years for many families. Hampshire County Council has today

decided to press ahead with plans Although there'll now

be a further four week consultation, it looks likely

Fort Hill Community School will close at the end

of the academic year to join forces with Cranborne Business

and Enterprise College. Let's get more from Jo Kent who's

at Fort Hill school tonight, Jo, Yes, any big decision affecting

a child's education is going What we're talking about here

is a decision to effectively close this school, a school parents

were fighting to protect. They put forward arguments

as to why it should stay open but the decision went against them

leading to some angry outbursts. You didn't tell the community before

that the school was going to close. You didn't tell us, if you had told

us before we could have The parents I spoke to said

they felt they hadn't been listened They're devastated and worried

about their children. I can honestly say I've got too well

performing children at that school and it is really, really sad

that they now are going to face She feels that because of the

decisions made by an organisation in Winchester her education has now

been, in her words, screwed up. Like so many things it

comes down to money. The schools watchdog Ofsted said

Fort Hill requires improvement, For this September the council says

the school received only 38 first Schools funding is worked

out on pupil numbers, to keep it open even for another

year as the parents had asked would result in a defecit

of half a million pounds. Meanwhile Cranborne also has

surplus places but it's on a bigger site so pupils

from here could be The council said it looked at other

options but at the end of the day that funding shortfall is something

it simply can't afford. It was difficult to assess certain

aspects of the consultation. They kept coming back to the same thing,

how can we make the school viable and give the quality curriculum we

want in Fort Hill for the next school year honours? Nobody came up

with an answer. Well there's another four week

consultation period. The council says it will

consider viable options which must only mean some sort

of outside funding. The parents say they'll fight

on to save this school. Next an update on a story you may

remember from before Christmas. Kevin Newton, himself

a former rough sleeper, wanted to do something to help

the homeless on the Isle of Wight. So he converted a double decker bus

into a night shelter. Four months on, it's

so successful more buses Inside Out's Jon Cuthill has

been finding out more. Kevin Newton is providing shelter

for homeless people with nowhere There is no excuse for

anybody being hungry. The bus will always be

needed because there are people who lose their jobs,

they lose where they're living, there are people whose relationships

will break up. So far, he has had 22 people on

board and managed to get 11 of them When they first come,

people arrive at the bus with A young lady came along and insisted

to take me out and buy She bought me a lovely

pair of boots which are A lot better than the

shoes I was wearing. Until three years ago,

Jonathan was a successful Due to depression, alcoholism

and divorce, he found himself I had a beautiful five bedroom home

overlooking the Solent. Now, five more buses

are being launched on the They have just been donated a bus

and should be up and running around It is just a great idea

and it is a really cheap solution It provides safety and shelter

and food and support. It will help people

back into society Following the success

on the Isle of Wight, Kevin's plan is to have a bus

in every major city in the UK within You can see more on this story

on Inside Out tonight On to sport now. Some interesting

talking going on about seven developments at Portsmouth.

Portsmouth say they have a robust process in place to deal with any

potential offers of investment the club issued a statement this

afternoon after reports emerged that former Walt Disney boss

Michael Eisner had been linked with buying the club.

South Today understands Eisner has been actively pursuing football

interests for several months though his Tornante investment firm.

Among other clubs under consideration was Reading but more

recently it's thought Portsmouth has been on his radar.

Any takeover would have to be approved by shareholders.

Bournemouth's second consecutive premier league win has put the club

on course for a third season in the top flight

The stage was set under the lights on Saturday night

Benik Afobe's deflected shot put them into the lead at the break,

Alfie Mawson credited with an own goal.

No one could deny Afobe a second to seal the three points

so after seven points from nine, what's changed?

I don't think anything's turned around.

I think the players stuck with it and didn't get too low and

didn't get negative, managed to ride out a mini period

where we weren't getting things as we wanted them to.

That meant the result has always been key.

The manager has been talking to us and

saying we need to look for that and get that back-to-back wins

We've got a good momentum and hopefully that can

continue until the end of the season.

Reading had a big win in the championship on Friday

night, so here's the rest of the weekend's talking points.

With Huddersfield losing and Newcastle drawing, Brighton could

have gone back to the top of the Championship if they had won at

Garry Monk's side are promotion contenders to.

They had much of the better of this game.

A familiar face would return to haunt the Albion.

Chris Wood starred on loan in their league promotion he put

With five minutes to play come Albion gave away a spot kick and

The gap to third is still six points.

Southampton couldn't quite recover from conceding twice in the opening

45 minutes of their game at White Hart Lane.

Christian Eriksen's low driver beating Forster.

A sterling second hole saw them pull one back. And equaliser was beyond

them. Portsmouth remain third but they had a date against Stevenage

and lost 3-0. It was 2-0 by half-time and Paul Cook's three-man

defence was found wanting. They Portsmouth were down to ten men by

the time they got this spot kick. Congratulations tonight

to the Thomas Hardye Their Under-15's reached

the National Schools Cup Vase They beat Bridgewater High School

48-5 this weekend. An incredible second half

performance saw Thomas Hardye score They'll now meet dr

Challoner's School from Team Solent's women's

basketball team secured The Hampshire team needed a win

from this weekend's game to be sure of the title,

and defeated Bristol Storm Meanwhile Reading Rockets long

unbeaten run in the men's national league came to an end

as they suffered defeats at new league champions Northumbria

and yesterday against Loughborough, A win on Saturday and they'll

guarantee runners up spot. Worthing Thunder are safe from

the drop after beating Westminster. Can playing 'light games' with make

believe bubbles and flowers help Well, a group of care home residents

from the Isle of Wight have They've been using a device that

projects interactive images onto a table top

to help people communicate Our Health Correspondent David

Fenton has been along to find out. There are many things that people

with dementia can't do. But they can do this. And this. And this. These

projected images are part game and part therapy. The clever thing is,

they move when you touch them. There is an infrared sensor that allows

people playing with the games to move the right. As it might it is a

safe environment. The projector is attached to a ceiling. It promotes

independent activity which is difficult to achieve with people

with late stage dementia. These care home residents have problems with

memory and communicating. But within minutes of sitting down, they were

laughingly talking enjoying themselves. They are engaging. He

can see the laughter. Social stimulation side of it. I'd better

keep quiet! I have been here for about an hour

and they are still playing the games. Some of them are getting

quite competitive. This is about more than just having fun. I think

it is so important to live well with dementia. What tends to happen is we

assume it can't be done but actually it can be dead if we know how to do

it and this is one of the tools we can use to help others.

This event was held at a local church but the device is finding its

way into care homes and NHS hospitals. It is a simple idea but

it makes people smile and it seems to work.

That is such a good idea. Sam Fraser is here where theirs this Monday.

Let's look ahead to the weather. These sheep in Askerswell

are wondering where spring went. The winds were good news for these

windsurfers in Mudeford. And the skies frowned over

the River Dunn in Hungerford, It is the spring equinox but things

didn't feel springlike today. These guys were leaden and we had some

rain. Let's look at the weather for the week ahead. It is a real mixed

bag. We will start to draw in some cold polar air so it will be chilly.

We will see spells of rain but the winds should ease from midweek.

Tonight is a chilly affair. Lowes dropping to two Celsius. That means

that tomorrow will dawn bright but chilly and breezy as well. Some good

spells of sunshine across the sunshine pity we'll see showers

moving in fairly quickly and though showers could fall as hail, perhaps

accompanied by thunder. Anything is possible. Nine Celsius is our top

temperature. It will feel colder than that in the winter. Tomorrow

evening, further showers make their way in ahead of an organised band of

rain. Under the cloudy skies, temperatures a little bit warmer,

perhaps six Celsius. Looking at Wednesday morning, the remnants of

that rain starts to make its way east so though should clear by the

afternoon and we will see is a bright or sunny spells developing

for most places. The odd shower knocking around. Highs of nine

Celsius but the wind will have dropped. Looking ahead to Thursday,

the area of low pressure as over northern France means we could see

some more rain for Southern counties as you go through the day. Some

bright spells as well and that is how the story continues as we head

into Friday. Some cloudy skies with breaks in the cloud. Temperatures

just creeping up to 10 Celsius. A little bit of rain around. As we

head into the weekend, it is an improving picture. If you've got

Mothering Sunday plans it will be good. Some sentient, chilly by night

and temperatures on I have been told it is international

happiness day-to-day. How did we do? We will leave you smiling. We will

be back at eight o'clock. Good night.

The 24-year-old man has been charged with murder.

You made sure an innocent man is charged!

What gives you the right to say that he's innocent?

If police wrongdoing is part of this, I want to know.

Huntley's definitely hiding something.